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    <description>Welcome to "Teaching Python Podcast,” the go-to podcast for anyone interested in the intersection of education and coding. Hosted by Kelly Paredes and Sean Tibor, this podcast dives into the thrills and challenges of teaching computer science through the engaging and versatile Python programming language.
About the Hosts:
Kelly Paredes brings a wealth of global experience in curriculum design and currently inspires sixth and eighth graders at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Celebrating her seventh year of integrating Python into her teaching, Kelly has a knack for making complex concepts accessible and exciting.
Sean Tibor, a Cloud, Infrastructure, and Networks leader at Pfizer, draws from a rich background that spans marketing, database design, and digital agency leadership. Having taught Python to seventh and eighth graders at Pine Crest School, Sean now extends his expertise by supporting interns and tutoring students in Python.
Explore with Us:
* Engaging Lessons: Discover how we make Python programming both fun and accessible for young learners, equipping them with the skills to tackle real-world problems.
* Classroom Insights: Experience our journey through both triumphs and trials in the classroom, and learn what it takes to foster a vibrant learning environment.
* Expert Interviews: Gain valuable perspectives from interviews with fellow educators and industry experts, who share their top strategies and success stories in coding education.
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About the Hosts:
Kelly Paredes brings a wealth of global experience in curriculum design and currently inspires sixth and eighth graders at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Celebrating her seventh year of integrating Python into her teaching, Kelly has a knack for making complex concepts accessible and exciting.
Sean Tibor, a Cloud, Infrastructure, and Networks leader at Pfizer, draws from a rich background that spans marketing, database design, and digital agency leadership. Having taught Python to seventh and eighth graders at Pine Crest School, Sean now extends his expertise by supporting interns and tutoring students in Python.
Explore with Us:
* Engaging Lessons: Discover how we make Python programming both fun and accessible for young learners, equipping them with the skills to tackle real-world problems.
* Classroom Insights: Experience our journey through both triumphs and trials in the classroom, and learn what it takes to foster a vibrant learning environment.
* Expert Interviews: Gain valuable perspectives from interviews with fellow educators and industry experts, who share their top strategies and success stories in coding education.
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  <itunes:subtitle>Many teachers give advice to parents on how to keep kids engaged during the summer. Sean and Kelly take their own advice and apply it to teachers and professional development.  In this episode, we discuss how to avoid the “Summer Slide” and what we are doing to keep on learning.</itunes:subtitle>
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Ultra-Low power consumption
</li><li><a title="TinyPICO | Crowd Supply" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/unexpected-maker/tinypico">TinyPICO | Crowd Supply</a> &mdash; One more remarkable ESP32 board.</li><li><a title="PBL Events | PBLWorks" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.pblworks.org/services/events">PBL Events | PBLWorks</a> &mdash; Learn more about PBL, and connect with a worldwide network of educators. We offer events&nbsp;in different locations throughout the year, delivering professional learning opportunities for individuals and small&nbsp;teams.</li><li><a title="ISTE - EdTech Conference 2019 | Philadelphia, June 23-26" rel="nofollow" href="https://conference.iste.org/2019/">ISTE - EdTech Conference 2019 | Philadelphia, June 23-26</a></li><li><a title="Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation: Saundra Yancy McGuire, Thomas Angelo, Stephanie McGuire: 9781620363164: Amazon.com: Gateway" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/162036316X/teachingpython-20">Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation: Saundra Yancy McGuire, Thomas Angelo, Stephanie McGuire: 9781620363164: Amazon.com: Gateway</a> &mdash; What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance. </li><li><a title="Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners: Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison: 8601419898244: Amazon.com: Gateway" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047091551X/teachingpython-20">Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners: Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison: 8601419898244: Amazon.com: Gateway</a> &mdash; Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.  Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines, small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps, as well as the documentation of student thinking. </li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Many teachers give advice to parents on how to keep kids engaged during the summer. Sean and Kelly take their own advice and apply it to teachers and professional development.  In this episode, we discuss how to avoid the “Summer Slide” and what we are doing to keep on learning.</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/teachingpython">Support Teaching Python</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Amazon.com: Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears (Singularity Series Book 1) eBook: William Hertling: Kindle Store" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006ACIMQQ/teachingpython-20">Amazon.com: Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears (Singularity Series Book 1) eBook: William Hertling: Kindle Store</a> &mdash; The book that Kelly skipped (and apparently Sean read in 2013)</li><li><a title="Amazon.com: A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity Series Book 2) eBook: William Hertling: Gateway" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B007FZVI2M/teachingpython-20">Amazon.com: A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity Series Book 2) eBook: William Hertling: Gateway</a> &mdash; Kelly's Summer Reading</li><li><a title="Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/">Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi</a> &mdash; The new Raspberry Pi 4 computer is out.</li><li><a title="Cartoon Guide to Statistics 1, Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith - Amazon.com" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00SRYUW5O/teachingpython-20">Cartoon Guide to Statistics 1, Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith - Amazon.com</a></li><li><a title="About - Project Euler" rel="nofollow" href="https://projecteuler.net/">About - Project Euler</a> &mdash; Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.</li><li><a title="4 Ways Your Student Can Avoid the “Summer Slide”" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.instructure.com/canvas/blog/4-ways-your-students-avoid-summer-slide">4 Ways Your Student Can Avoid the “Summer Slide”</a> &mdash; Hearing the final school bell for the year can bring feelings of joy, relief, and...dread? Many students, their parents, and their future teachers know the reality of the so-called “Summer Slide.” </li><li><a title="Amazon.com: HiLetgo New Version ESP8266 NodeMCU LUA CP2102 ESP-12E Internet WiFi Development Board Open Source Serial Wireless Module Works Great with Arduino IDE/Micropython: Gateway" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B010O1G1ES/teachingpython-20">Amazon.com: HiLetgo New Version ESP8266 NodeMCU LUA CP2102 ESP-12E Internet WiFi Development Board Open Source Serial Wireless Module Works Great with Arduino IDE/Micropython: Gateway</a> &mdash; ESP8266 CP2102 NodeMCU LUA ESP-12E WIFI Serial Wireless Module. Built-in Micro-USB, with flash and reset switches, easy to program. Arduino compatible, works great with the latest Arduino IDE/Mongoose IoT/Micropython</li><li><a title="Amazon.com: HiLetgo ESP-WROOM-32 ESP32 ESP-32S Development Board 2.4GHz Dual-Mode WiFi + Bluetooth Dual Cores Microcontroller Processor Integrated with Antenna RF AMP Filter AP STA for Arduino IDE: Gateway" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0718T232Z/teachingpython-20">Amazon.com: HiLetgo ESP-WROOM-32 ESP32 ESP-32S Development Board 2.4GHz Dual-Mode WiFi + Bluetooth Dual Cores Microcontroller Processor Integrated with Antenna RF AMP Filter AP STA for Arduino IDE: Gateway</a> &mdash; 2.4GHz Dual Mode WiFi + Bluetooth Development Board
Ultra-Low power consumption
</li><li><a title="TinyPICO | Crowd Supply" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/unexpected-maker/tinypico">TinyPICO | Crowd Supply</a> &mdash; One more remarkable ESP32 board.</li><li><a title="PBL Events | PBLWorks" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.pblworks.org/services/events">PBL Events | PBLWorks</a> &mdash; Learn more about PBL, and connect with a worldwide network of educators. We offer events&nbsp;in different locations throughout the year, delivering professional learning opportunities for individuals and small&nbsp;teams.</li><li><a title="ISTE - EdTech Conference 2019 | Philadelphia, June 23-26" rel="nofollow" href="https://conference.iste.org/2019/">ISTE - EdTech Conference 2019 | Philadelphia, June 23-26</a></li><li><a title="Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation: Saundra Yancy McGuire, Thomas Angelo, Stephanie McGuire: 9781620363164: Amazon.com: Gateway" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/162036316X/teachingpython-20">Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation: Saundra Yancy McGuire, Thomas Angelo, Stephanie McGuire: 9781620363164: Amazon.com: Gateway</a> &mdash; What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance. </li><li><a title="Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners: Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison: 8601419898244: Amazon.com: Gateway" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047091551X/teachingpython-20">Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners: Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison: 8601419898244: Amazon.com: Gateway</a> &mdash; Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study.  Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines, small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps, as well as the documentation of student thinking. </li></ul>]]>
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